1823
Saturday, January 18, 1823
Post-office established in the old Thurber store at Rouses Point with Calvin K. Averill as postmaster.
Friday, February 14, 1823
An act was passed authorizing the Judges of the Clinton Common Pleas to erect "a tollgate" at or near the dwelling house of Benj. H. Mooers, eighteen miles west of Plattsburgh village.
Wednesday, March 26, 1823
In the Davidson homestead, overlooking Cumberland Bay, was born Margaret Miller
Davidson, the younger and equally talented sister of Lucretia. She began
to write poetry when but six years old.
On the Birth of a Sister.
Sweet babe, I cannot hope thou wilt be freed
From woes, to all, since earliest time, decreed; But mayest thou be with
resignation blessed
To bear each evil, howsoe'er distressed.
-Written by Lucretia in her fifteenth
year.
Saturday, April 26, 1823
We have received no mail from the South for several days. We understand that for the future it will come but once a week.
Judge John Lynde in Plattsburgh Republican. The postage on a letter was than 25 cents.
